NEWS: The O’Shaughnessy’s 2024-2025 Season Arts Dance Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - July 24, 2024 A promotional image for Ananya Dance Theater's ANTARANGA: Between You and Me, one of 13 events in the O'Shaugnessy's just-announced 2024-2025 season. Photo by Canaan Mattson. The O’Shaughnessy at St. Catherine's University has announced its 2024-2025 season. The 13 new events include a wholly free program and anchor performances such as
REVIEW: Moving, Funny, Striking English (Guthrie Theater) Arts Theatre by Basil Considine - July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 Sahar Bibiyan as Roya in the Guthrie Theater's production of English, now playing through August 18. Photo by Liz Lauren. There are few theatrical shows for which sound design and dialect coaching are more essential than the Guthrie Theater/Goodman Theatre production of English. This humorous, moving, and always engaging play perfectly
REVIEW: The Time for Newsies is Now (Artistry) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - July 21, 2024July 21, 2024 Singer-actor Tyson Insixiengmai as Crutchie in Artistry's production of Disney's Newsies: The Musical, currently playing at the Bloomington Center for the Arts. Photo by Dan Norman. During its original Broadway run, the musical Newsies was only a modest success. What a difference a decade makes – in Artistry's just-opened production, the
FEATURE: From Northfield to Cultural Ambassador: Victoria Erickson, Soprano and DAAD Scholar Arts Music Opera Theatre by John Anderson - July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 Minnesota singer and Opera Athena Creative Director Victoria Erickson in the 2024 premiere of the opera The Miller's Daughter, for which she wrote the libretto. The city of Northfield, Minnesota has long had an outsize influence on the larger world. In its early role as an agricultural hub, it exported flours
PREVIEW: Behind the Story – Before Out of the Box Opera’s Suor Angelica Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - June 24, 2024June 24, 2024 The interior of the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, MN, which will host Out of the Box Opera's production of Puccini's opera Suor Angelica. In the spring of 1904, the composer Giacomo Puccini was at an impasse. To the public eye, his life and career were flying high: he had
NEWS: First Look at Purple Rain Musical on Saturday, June 22 Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - June 21, 2024 The stage musical adaptation of Prince's legendary film and album Purple Rain is taking shape. The musical, scheduled to run April 10-May 11, 2025 at the historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, is filling out its creative team with new members, and will receive a "first look" preview and discussion tomorrow. This stage
REVIEW: Musically Stellar MJ (HTT/Orpheum Theatre) Arts Dance Music Theatre by Bev Wolfe - May 25, 2024May 25, 2024 Brandon Lee Harris as 'Michael' Josh A. Dawson as 'Quincy Jones' Roman Banks as 'MJ' and the cast of the MJ First National Tour. Photo by Matthew Murphy/MurphyMade. The touring Broadway musical MJ is more than a show about Michael Jackson’s life, it is the Michael Jackson experience with an enthused
PREVIEW: HUGE Improv Theater’s Summer Season Arts Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - May 4, 2024May 5, 2024 HUGE Improv Theater's still new-to-it space at 2728 Lyndale Ave in Minneapolis. The nonprofit has been an anchor tenant bringing patrons to other area businesses in Uptown for 14 years. HUGE Improv Theater – the Twin Cities' only venue devoted exclusively to both teaching and presenting long-form improv – has announced
PREVIEW: Mixed Precipitation’s Pickup Truck Opera Returns Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - April 15, 2024 Singers Kara Morgan, Corissa Bussian, and Mark Billy in Mixed Precipitation's 2023 operatic production of Romeo and Juliet. In the not-so-distant future, scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Johann Faust faces a planet in crisis but no motivation to spare humanity its fate. He yearns to find a life of meaning and love.
NEWS: Jerome Foundation Announces $5.5 Million in Grants Arts Dance Music Theatre Visual Arts by Amy Donahue - April 11, 2024 Minnesota-based Ananya Dance Theatre (2023's We Are The Procession by Michhil Amra pictured) is one of 79 organizations to receive support from the Jerome Foundation in the coming cycle. ADT's award will underwrite its NextGen Choreolab program for early career, Minnesota-based choreographers. Photo by Canaan Mattson Photography. The Jerome Foundation –